Agreed! The 50th was one of the worst episodes I've seen, and yet I have friends who friggin' swoon over it. These are people whose opinions I generally respect, so I'm left feeling like I'm living The Emperor's New Clothes. I'm so glad I'm not alone in thinking it was awful.

I got very drunk and angry in the pub afterwards. No surprises there then...

I was quite surprised too that quite a few people claimed to like it. I put that down to really trying to like it. I have a friend who did the same with Phantom Menace. "If you watch it ten times, Sarah, it really isn't that bad..."

"I've been in love with the morbid, ebony-black grotesqueness of the 19th century since I was knee-high to a funeral mute."

That being said, I railed against certain elements of Dr. Who when they were knew. I couldn't stand Martha or Donna, and some episodes made me want to beat my head against a wall. Rewatching all of that recently, they weren't *that* bad. I even found Donna more amusing than irritating, and Martha was actually kind of a bad ass. So who knows, sometimes a rewatch brings about a perspective shift.

Doesn't mean I'm going to watch Day of the Doctor ten more times in the hopes of changing my mind about it, though.